MinimOSD could not get the sonarrange values out of the MAVlink serial port. You need to modify the board to connect a Pin of the arduino cpu directly to the output of your lidar. Then add some lines of code in the arduino program to get this value and use it. But maybe arducam is more easy to modify than MinimOSD.

If you don't know how to do this... well keep on asking. You may find some very nice developers that may help you.. and me as well.

Jason Smoker said:

i know this a old thread but Im looking for sonar range? does it have it?

MinimOSD could not get the sonarrange values out of the MAVlink serial port. You need to modify the board to connect a Pin of the arduino cpu directly to the output of your lidar. Then add some lines of code in the arduino program to get this value and use it. But maybe arducam is more easy to modify than MinimOSD.

If you don't know how to do this... well keep on asking. You may find some very nice developers that may help you.. and me as well.

Jason Smoker said:

i know this a old thread but Im looking for sonar range? does it have it?

I hope this discussion still alive. I want to learn how to modify the source code by my self so can get full customize of this minimosd. I have experience with basic arduino as I already learn from original arduino website. But as I hear from another discussion actually not enaugh to use original Arduino IDE to modify MinimOSD/APM.

Please give me step by step clue how to get involve in minimosd software development. Sorry for my very newbie question :)

Hi everyone I have an oddity with the Sat icon on my Minimosd and wondered if anyone else is seiing this or may have an idea how to stop it. I recently fitted an APM 2.8 with Neo M8N GPS to my FX-61. Sometimes the Satellite icon shows the Dish symbol and sometimes it shows the X symbol, now this can happen even when it is seeing 17 to 20 satelittes and it's confusing a bit. I have added to pictures to show the story. Even when it shows the X symbol all my auto pilot modes work as usual ie RTH. Loiter, Cruz etc my position co-ordinates are constantly updating whilst flying and the model does appear to know where it is and I am a little confused by this behaviour, so any thoughs on this anyone is there anything special I need to do in Mission Planner to accomaadate the new M8N GPS for instance?

Ok here is where I am at. Thanks so much albeagle. Using your files and instructions got me the closest I've been to getting this working perfectly but I am still having some issues. For some reason even following your directions and using your files my OSD display does not look exactly like yours. Things seem to be out of place, such as the horizon seems lower than in your photos an the battery graphic does not seem to be working.

Also, I am trying to figure out how to get all the telemetry info reading right from APM. Battery level is showing different value than on APM telemetry and keeps flashing BATT low warning. Maybe it is related to pin options on config tab. Not sure maybe you can give some guidance on that as well.

I think I just figured out the issue with Voltage not reading right. I think I never noticed that when I loaded your files it said Pin Batt A instead of Mavlink voltage. Gonna try it later. Does the Pin adjust act like a

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